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RNs of North Adams Regional Hospital approve two-year contract

The Registered Nurses of North Adams Regional Hospital today ratified a two-year contract. A tentative agreement was reached on September 2, 2010 that maintains important patient care protections in the nurses' contract, while also preserving important rights and benefits the hospital wanted to take away from the nurses. The agreement averted a strike, ending nearly nine months of contentious negotiations.

7 Oct 2010

Top research papers on venous disease receive VDC Research Awards

The Venous Disease Coalition (VDC) presented the Coalition's second annual Research Awards to the top three research papers on venous disease published in 2009 at the organization's Seventh Annual Meeting in Alexandria, VA.

7 Oct 2010

Quintiles, SNUH announce clinical research partnership

Quintiles, the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide, today celebrated its 10th year anniversary in South Korea by announcing a strategic alliance with the Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) as part of its unique Prime Site program. SNUH is Quintiles' second Prime Site in Asia, adding to six other existing sites located in the United States, Europe and Africa.

7 Oct 2010

Surgeons create novel matrix to control insulin dependent diabetes

Surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, are reporting on a whole new strategy for controlling insulin dependent diabetes without daily injections of insulin. The surgeons have bio-engineered a novel matrix that serves as a scaffold for seeding supportive stem cells as well as pancreatic islets (the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas).

7 Oct 2010

VAP bundle helps eliminate hospital-acquired infection

Critically ill patients on a breathing tube are at risk not only from their injuries or diseases, but also from infections they can contract in the hospital. One of the most common infections is pneumonia from breathing tubes. A study of a new multidisciplinary protocol that has all but eliminated such infections at one hospital was reported on today at the 2010 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

7 Oct 2010

Sverica International to acquire CFWH

The Center for Wound Healing, Inc., a leading manager of comprehensive wound care treatment centers that offer wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Sverica International, a leading private equity firm, for approximately $41 million.

7 Oct 2010

HHS partners with PEPFAR to invest $130M for African medical education

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief with a plan to invest $130 million over five years to transform African medical education and dramatically increase the number of health care workers.

7 Oct 2010

Immune reaction to dystrophin may contribute to muscle disease: Study

An immune reaction to dystrophin, the muscle protein that is defective in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, may pose a new challenge to strengthening muscles of patients with this disease, suggests a new study appearing in the October 7, 2010, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

7 Oct 2010

Feds try to address hospitals' and doctors' concerns about accountable care organizations

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz told a meeting of 300 health industry representatives Tuesday his agency would explore an 'expedited review process' for hospitals and doctors looking to determine if new partnerships they form to provide care would violate antitrust laws. He was one of several top federal officials trying to address the concerns of hospitals and doctors.

7 Oct 2010

Vitamin D deficiency may impact orthopaedic procedure outcomes

Forty-three percent of patients scheduled to undergo orthopaedic surgery have insufficient levels of vitamin D and two out of five of those patients had levels low enough to place them at risk for metabolic bone disease, according to a study published this month in the October 6th issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS).

7 Oct 2010

DiFUSION Technologies' Xiphos line of posterior interbody devices receive 510(k) clearance

DiFUSION Technologies Inc., a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of its proprietary CleanFUZE anti-microbial technology for orthopedic implants, announced today the 510(k) clearance of its new Xiphos line of posterior interbody devices indicated for intervertebral body fusion of the lumbar spine, from L2 to SI, in skeletally mature patients who have had six months of non-operative treatment.

7 Oct 2010

Daschle warns opponents can still damage health law and stirs controversy on public option

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has written a book about the struggle to overhaul the health system. But while promoting this book, some of Daschle's comments about White House strategy on the public option have stirred a controversy.

7 Oct 2010

American Cancer Society awards 94 national research, training grants to 70 institutions nationwide

The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 94 national research and training grants totaling $46,633,000 to 70 institutions nationwide in the first of two grants cycles for 2011.

7 Oct 2010

Cincinnati Children's Hospital receives $12 million grant to create IBD registry

Building on the success of previous efforts among researchers and caregivers to improve the care of chronically ill children, a $12-million grant to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will allow creation of a registry system unlike any before it, providing information in real time on thousands of cases around the country – and eventually the world.

7 Oct 2010

Hedgeye Risk Management to host conference on demand and profits in healthcare

The Hedgeye Risk Management Healthcare team, led by Tom Tobin, will host our next Black Book release and Conference Call, "Aging of America: Demographics of Demand and Profits in Healthcare,"

7 Oct 2010

NIH grants $3.7 million to develop more accurate algorithms for tracking fetal development

Fetal growth is used as a marker of health and well-being in unborn babies as well as children. But, the tools that are currently available to differentiate between a small, healthy fetus and a fetus that is small due to pathologic causes have significant limitations. What if they were improved. Would it save the health care system resources spent monitoring women who might need medical intervention because their fetuses might just be small and healthy. Would it help some women avoid the anxiety such intervention brings.

7 Oct 2010

Progenics receives NIH grant to develop novel monoclonal antibodies to treat C. difficile infection

Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the award of a grant totaling $4,143,652 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Progenics' program to develop novel monoclonal antibodies to treat Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection.

7 Oct 2010

Patients with muscular dystrophy mount immune response to dystophin protein prior to gene therapy: Study

A clinical trial designed to replace the genetic defect causing the most common form of muscular dystrophy has uncovered an unexpected aspect of the disease. The trial, based on therapy designed by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, showed that some patients mount an immune response to the dystrophin protein even before they have received the gene therapy.

7 Oct 2010

DIS to generate $436 million in 2010 to improve patient care

Canada's investments in drug information systems (DIS) will generate $436 million in cost savings and efficiencies in 2010, announced Richard Alvarez, President and CEO, Canada Health Infoway (Infoway). The findings are outlined in an independent study commissioned by Infoway, released today.

7 Oct 2010

Queensland health workers unhappy with pay rise

As a protest against the Queensland government's pay offer, thousands of health workers plan to stop work in Brisbane on Thursday. This would include health practitioners, psychologists, physiotherapists, radiographers and scientists. The rally would take place outside Parliament House in Brisbane at noon. The outrage followed the state government's 2.5 per cent a year pay rise offer over three years.

6 Oct 2010

Hospital News and Research

RNs of North Adams Regional Hospital approve two-year contract

Top research papers on venous disease receive VDC Research Awards

Quintiles, SNUH announce clinical research partnership

Surgeons create novel matrix to control insulin dependent diabetes

VAP bundle helps eliminate hospital-acquired infection

Sverica International to acquire CFWH

HHS partners with PEPFAR to invest $130M for African medical education

Immune reaction to dystrophin may contribute to muscle disease: Study

Feds try to address hospitals' and doctors' concerns about accountable care organizations

Vitamin D deficiency may impact orthopaedic procedure outcomes

DiFUSION Technologies' Xiphos line of posterior interbody devices receive 510(k) clearance

Daschle warns opponents can still damage health law and stirs controversy on public option

American Cancer Society awards 94 national research, training grants to 70 institutions nationwide

Cincinnati Children's Hospital receives $12 million grant to create IBD registry

Hedgeye Risk Management to host conference on demand and profits in healthcare

NIH grants $3.7 million to develop more accurate algorithms for tracking fetal development

Progenics receives NIH grant to develop novel monoclonal antibodies to treat C. difficile infection

Patients with muscular dystrophy mount immune response to dystophin protein prior to gene therapy: Study

DIS to generate $436 million in 2010 to improve patient care

Queensland health workers unhappy with pay rise

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